Time fi you

53

Karalana Atalyia Campbell
Same day
March 2024

"This a foolishness innuh!" I exclaimed. "How unnuh fi lock mi up without evidence?"

"That's the law and yuh can't do anything about it." Stacy said smugly.

Mi pretty sure the law nuh seh nothing like that. A who she fuck fi get innah e force?

"Well that's fucked up." I muttered under my breath.

"Aye gyal, a wah yuh juss seh?" She ask coming to drape me up. Mighty God, a wah this?

"Yo, leggo offa mi!" I told her. Questioning them bring mi dung yahso fi duh and this yah gyal waah fi woman handle mi.

"Yaah guh learn fi have respect. . .wait fi mi and yuh in yah. Yuh haffi talk weh yuh duh to him by time mi done wid yuh." She said seriously.

Like sumn wrong wid dah gyal yah brain. I didn't say anything. . .mi haffi lock mi mouth not because I had to but because I didn't want to say anything. Mi go stay humble or try fi stay humble.

"Haffi shut up now doh? . . .hehe. Bout yuh waah disrespect police weh innah high rank. . .shoulda charge yuh fi that." She boasted and I mentally rolled my eyes.

Yuh know seh mi woulda give her sumn fi charge mi fah? Only if the bitch neva cuff mi hand.

"Siddung yahso." She said shoving me onto a chair.

I bit my lips to refrain from lashing out on her.

A jus the mercy a God, Mercy a God.

* * *

"Miss. . ." One of the officers trailed off. Them juss reach yah,I've been in here for an hour and hungry a kill mi. Shae supposed to deh yere because the Lawyer siddung beside a mi.

"Campbell." I told him.

"Right, we would appreciate if you answer all these questions honestly or else you'll suffer the consequences. " He told me seriously. Him a talk like one a them man deh innah waah show.

Mi really nuh waah laugh, all a this seem funny, all a this seems like a dream.

Cause this cyaah real.

"Okay suh first question." He said. He said standing up  and then placed his hands in his pocket. Okay?

"When-" He was cut off by the opening of the door. I look up to see Stacy she.

The man weh fi question mi look pan ar aggravated.

"I was told to be here for the questioning sir." She told him. This time a lie the dutty gyal a tell.

The officer nodded his head and turned his attention back to me "Anyways, where was I? Oh right. When was the last time you saw Mr Escoffery?"

"I. . .uh. . ." I racked my brain trying to remember when.

A when mi last see him?

"See the gyal can't even memba when last she see her man." The Stacy she seh.

"Officer Simpson be quiet." The police officer snapped at her and I snickered but when everyone attention turned to me I covered it up with a cough.

"It's okay, not to know." My Lawyer whispered quietly. The man serious lakka judge.

"I don't remember." I told them, he nodded.

"I see. The anonymous message that wr got stated that you guys had an argument the same night, he left angrily and hadn't been seen since. Do you know where he might've went?"